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Re: Bug#139569: patch: info patch doesn't lead to the info docs (fwd)


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: Bug#139569: patch: info patch doesn't lead to the info docs (fwd)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 12:02:15 -0800 (PST)

> From: Tom Tromey <address@hidden>
> Date: 25 Mar 2002 00:22:49 -0700

> If Automake's debian-detection heuristic fails, I'd like to know about it.

The Automake-generated makefile does detect Debian correctly, but when
it finds Debian it simply refuses to invoke install-info.  On my
Debian host, this causes the resulting info directory to not know
about the just-installed files, and that is the problem that originally
prompted Debian bug 139569.

It appears that Debian uses different conventions for install-info.  I
don't know what the Debian conventions are.  Perhaps Automake could be
modified to know about them, but that would require someone with
Debian install-info expertise.

Anyway, this is clearly not a diffutils bug.  The bug should get
reassigned in the Debian database back to install-info, or to automake
if they really want to continue to maintain an incompatible
install-info indefinitely for some reason.

> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 15:10:56 +0100
> From: Michael Fedrowitz <address@hidden>

> I don't really think this is a bug though. 'Invoking Patch' is an
> item in node diff, so you can get it with info diff 'invoking
> patch'.

'info patch' works just fine when GNU Texinfo 4.1 install-info was
used to install the file, but it does not work when Debian
install-info was used.  Perhaps this is not considered to be a bug,
but it is undesirable behavior compared to GNU Texinfo 4.1.



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